Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 2 | Right , well that 's good , erm , and , so in , in relation to the A G M erm we did , we were asked about putting in motion 's erm , are you having to leave the one about the press after what John said ? |
| 3 | No Jan , I understand some information published from the company Double Day Research Association , erm including a leaflet and erm if you recall chair , we were asked about producing a leaflet for some time ago . |
| 4 | ‘ Which brings us back to what we were speaking about … |
| 5 | When the first well Aye one night we were speaking about this . |
| 6 | And erm if anyone 's listening Peter , we do need an announcer , you know what we were speaking about on Tuesday , so erm if anybody 's interested like , preferably it would suit a female better I think erm they want to contact John Blake on Monday . |
| 7 | We were taught about hand grenades and explosives , and how to set ambushes and lay mines in the most effective pattern . |
| 8 | I was gon na say about sex education that when I was learning at school , it 's also very male dominated erm it was , I mean you were talking about erm what 's i li , the differences between males and females learning about sex education and wha , and we were learnt about the the man having pleasure , we were taught about the man having the erection and the man having the orgasm , I mean , we did n't even know what a clitoris was ! |
| 9 | The fact that women were less likely to go absent but more likely to be in unfavourable jobs meant that we were misled about the effect of low status jobs on absence before we controlled for sex . |
| 10 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 11 | And we were n't thinking about how many one ate , we were thinking about how many six ate . |
| 12 | We were thinking about coffee at the time in particular , and quite a few of the people wanted to know that . |
| 13 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 14 | We were thinking about making a weekend from it . |
| 15 | Erm and along with this we were thinking about ways to subsidize conference for people and this might be one way to do it for the for York Green Party to pay part of the cost of renting the accommodation . |
| 16 | Furthermore , if we were thinking about projecting the workforce of a large employer , the assumption corresponds to recruitment to replace leavers . |
| 17 | And we 'll see that microwave we were thinking about . |
| 18 | I mean , we were thinking about like the Sunday markets and things . |
| 19 | We were gon na , er we were thinking about going up there . |
| 20 | The fact we were chatting about a programme on Radio 4 while standing on a dainty platform hundreds of feet tall seemed not to bother him . |
| 21 | ‘ We were prancing about making a racket in the middle of the night so they had a helicopter up straight away to see what we were up to . ’ |
| 22 | I was gon na say about sex education that when I was learning at school , it 's also very male dominated erm it was , I mean you were talking about erm what 's i li , the differences between males and females learning about sex education and wha , and we were learnt about the the man having pleasure , we were taught about the man having the erection and the man having the orgasm , I mean , we did n't even know what a clitoris was ! |
| 23 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 24 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |
| 25 | wa was n't it when , when we were studying about landlord tenant relationships |
| 26 | And I 'm not saying that 's the reason but clearly that is er factor and and certainly some of the points we were making about distribution of traffic er on the western side of harrogate er clearly that would n't have had the benefits of providing that that connection on the western side , it would have concentrated all connections between Harrogate and Knaresborough and given rise to more concentrated local traffic effects in that area than would be the case er with an outer western er relief road . |
| 27 | The first arose because even though I myself and the women I was involved with , called ourselves feminist , I was n't really clear what we were doing about it . |
| 28 | ‘ We were wondering about that charming old gentleman we 've seen you with in Mondano . ’ |
| 29 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 30 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |